Category:M.F. Plant (ship, 1879)
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English: According to Gordon Newell, the steamer M.F. Plant was "among the bad luck vessels of the Pacific Coast".
- Built by Neafie & Levy at Philadelphia in 1879 as the Cuba for Davila & Co. (Spain)
- Renamed Argonauts
- Captured April 29, 1898 in the Spanish-American War by USS Marblehead and USS Nashville, it became property of the Florida East Coast Railroad, who renamed it Cocoa.
- The Florida East Coast Railroad railroad merged with the Plant Line (Atlantic Coast Line Railroad) in 1900 to form the P. & 0. Line; the ship was renamed M.F. Plant and served briefly for the resulting Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Co. before being sold to the Oregon Coal & Navigation Co. and brought west.
- It later passed to the Alaska Coast Steamship Co., who renamed it the Yukon. It sunk off Alaska in 1913.
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